7th Grade spelling

7th Grade Words With the Prefix Ex

Words with the prefix ex, meaning out or away: export, expand, explain, extend, exposure. Play hangman or print a spelling worksheet.

7th Grade spelling: words with the prefix ex
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The pattern: Ex means out of or away from: export, exclude, exhale.

Ex is a Latin prefix that means out of or away from. To export is to carry out, to expand is to spread out, to exclude is to shut out. In many words the idea is still clear, in others the prefix has merged with a root that no longer stands alone: explain, explore and expect all begin with ex but the remaining part is not a word on its own.

The list holds thirty words, such as except, expect, explain, excited, exercise, express, excuse, external, exposed, exposure, explanation, exhibition, exception, expand, extend, explore, export, expense, excess and excellence. Before a c, k, s, x or h, ex is pronounced as eks, and before other sounds it is often pronounced as ig, as in example. Seventh graders have the vocabulary to see ex as a meaningful piece, and the list shows how common it is.

30 entries. Our solver needed 0.7 wrong guesses on average: 23 easy, 7 medium and 0 hard. The toughest is excuse (3 misses), the quickest except (0).

Difficulty from our solver:Easy 0–1 missesMedium 2–4Hard 5+

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Teaching it

Use the meaning out as a starting point and look for the idea in each word. External means on the outside, exposed means put out in the open, extend means stretch out. When the base is not a word, chunk by syllable: ex-plain, ex-plore. The usual spelling errors cluster at the join. Students write exs for ex (exsite for excite), double the c in excellent, or leave out the x in expect and write espect.

For hangman, e and x are free, so the game really tests the rest of the word. Choose a handful of words that start with exc, like except, excited, excuse and excess, and have students say which letters follow the x. Print the worksheet and ask students to sort the words into ones where out is clear and ones where they must look it up.

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Print a 7th Grade Words With the Prefix Ex worksheet

7th Grade Words With the Prefix Ex printable hangman worksheet: eight puzzles with letter blanks, a drawing frame and an alphabet strip

Eight puzzles on one US Letter page, with a clue, letter blanks, an empty frame to draw in, an alphabet strip to cross off and circles to count misses. Page two is the answer key.

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